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Actress and humorist Annabelle Gurwitch returns with I See You Made an Effort, a book of essays so wickedly funny it may make you forget your last birthday. Not one to shy away from the grisly realities of middle age, the slyly subversive O, The Oprah Magazine Gurwitch confronts the various indignities faced by femmes dun certain age with candor, wit, and a healthy dose of hilarious self-deprecation.Whether falling in lust at the Genius bar, navigating the extensiveand treacherously expensiveanti aging offerings at a department-store beauty counter, coping with the assisted suicide of her best friend, negotiating the ins and outs of acceptable behavior with her teenage kid, or the thudding financial reality of the never-tirement generation that leads her to petty theft, Gurwitchs essays prove her a remarkably astute writer in her prime in so many ways.
